Clean Manuscript

v0.1.0

This template was designed for long-form text documents. While I use it in an academic context, it should be versatile enough for anyone to use. I tried to follow established typographic principles (e.g. in terms of line length and height) to enhance readability. Personal taste also played a big role, so feel free to fork this repository and tweak the template.

Installing

quarto use template gl-eb/quarto-clean-manuscript

This will install the extension and create an example qmd file that you can use as a starting place for your document.

Using

---
title: Your Document Title
author: Name
date: last-modified
format:
  clean-manuscript-html: default
  clean-manuscript-docx: default
---

You can learn more about controlling the appearance of HTML output here: https://quarto.org/docs/output-formats/html-basics.html

Resources

The HTML format uses Adobe’s Source family of fonts:

• Source Serif for body text
• Source Sans for tables
• Source Code Pro for source code

Both font files and their license are included in the extension.

The docx format uses the Charter font, which comes preinstalled in macOS. You can download it from Matthew Butterick’s excellent Practical Typography website

The eLife and Science citation style language styles also come bundled with this extention. Their are licenses under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license. These two styles are author-date and numeric styles respectively.

Example

Here is the source code for a minimal sample document: template.qmd.